A sanitation truck dumps a load of trash into the working face of the landfill at the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Colerain Township.

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Something stinks at the Rumpke landfill, a lawsuit suit filed Monday alleges, because its owner won't fix what is making the areas around the landfill reek and upset residents hold their noses.

Colerain Township residents Jack and Lori Rahn and Carolyn Williams filed the suit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. They hope to expand it to a class-action suit involving hundreds, "maybe thousands," of residents who live near the landfill and are bothered by the stink.

The suit accuses Rumpke of creating a system that recovers gas from the landfill to be used for fuel, but doing it improperly, ...